Plane linked to Casey Anthony causes stir in Orlando

July 19, 2011|By Walter Pacheco, Orlando Sentinel

A plane linked to Casey Anthony landed at Orlando Executive Airport today, but her attorney denied his client is back in Orlando.

Video footage from WFTV shot over Orlando Executive Airport today shows a woman matching Casey Anthony's build running into the airport while two men covered her head. But WESH is reporting that airport officials said Anthony never landed in Orlando.

Preliminary reports show the woman ran from a Pilatus PC-12 single-engine turboprop passenger craft owned by Todd Macaluso, a former member of Casey Anthony's defense team.

When attorney Jose Baez was asked if Anthony had returned to Orlando, he told the Orlando Sentinel in a text message: "Not true. Macaluso having fun."

The woman possibly left the airport in a red SUV.

Macaluso's plane has flown to several places in the last 24 hours, according to the website FlightAware.com.

The craft left John Wayne Airport in California and headed to Baton Rouge on Monday evening. It left Louisiana this morning for St. George Island.

At some point this afternoon, the pilot filed a flight plan mid-flight that announced the plane was headed for Orlando Executive Airport.